Indoor
In 2003, Aleksandra Mir embarked on a long-term project entitled Plane Landing. The artist wanted to create a large inflatable balloon filled with helium in the form of an airliner. She called in a specialist company to produce a balloon 20 metres long and with a wingspan of 15 metres. For more than 20 years, Mir has been “landing” this lighter-than-air giant in various countries and iconic places, then photographing these improbable and poetic landings. In 2023, the Kunsthaus Zürich acquired this monumental work and, at the invitation of the Biennale Images Vevey, organised another landing. To accentuate its paradoxes, Plane Landing is presented sometimes inflated, sometimes deflated, indoors, in a room whose neo-baroque mouldings contrasted with the metal structures of the hangars.
Between 2001 and 2003, during the manufacturing process of the inflatable plane, Mir produced a series of collages representing the imaginary future landing places for the aircraft. During her residence in Vevey in 2024, the artist, inspired by the local area, created new collages specifically for the Salle del Castillo. She incorporated the CAD (Computer-Aided Design) plan of her initial project, superimposed images unearthed in antique shops, bookshops, the Musée historique de Vevey and the town’s flea market, to create a fantastic and sometimes nonsensical work. These hundred or so original pieces anchor her installation Plane Landing in Vevey’s pictorial history.
Exhibition layout and design by Images Vevey and the artist
In collaboration with Kunsthaus Zürich and with the collaboration of Mirjam Varadinis, independent curator and Curator-at-large Kunsthaus Zürich
